Israel/Palestine Peace Vine

IDF removes key West Bank roadblocks

In an effort to improve Palestinian quality of life, the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria removed a number of roadblocks on key roads throughout the West Bank in recent weeks. One of the roadblocks – called the Shomronim Barrier – was removed several we …

Peace from the grassroots

USAID awards a three-year grant to a Bedouin professor’s peace-building project between Israeli and Palestinian human-services providers. By Abigail Klein Leichman "Diplomats haven’t made many inroads in relations between the Arab and Jewish populatio …

Tzipi Livni expected to submit resignation from Israel's Knesset - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Tzipi Livni is scheduled to meet Knesset Speaker Rivlin later Tuesday, where political sources estimate will submit her resignation from the Knesset following a recent loss to Shaul Mofaz in the Kadima primary. The former foreign minister has reportedly updated aides and pa …

At Yom Ha'atzmaut, school shows it's OK for Jewish, Arab students to have differences

By Eetta Prince-Gibson JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The two seventh-grade girls walk together down the hall, their heads touching as they talk excitedly. Dana's dark auburn hair is pulled back in a ponytail. Waard's head is covered by a hijab, the traditional Arab headscarf, held with a f …

Something got left out of the CBS 'Sixty Minutes' documentary on Palestinian Christians

This is a press release that I did not write, but I had no way of linking to it as a seed.  Tha actual author is identified at the end.  In my opinion it is needed to counter the unfair and biased CBS 'Sixty Minutes' documentary on Palestinian Christians.  Therefor …

Continue reading this entry ...

Muslim, Zionist and proud

I am a Zionist, a proud Muslim Zionist, and I love Israel, but this was not always the case. In fact, for many years I was quite the extreme opposite. I experienced the high levels of anti-Semitismand anti-Israel activity taking place on British university campuses, bec …

Soldiers save Palestinian baby near border crossing - Israel News, Ynetnews

The Home Front Command's Kedem Battalion, which is currently stationed near the Halamish settlement in the West Bank, saved the life of a 10-day old Palestinian baby from one of the adjacent villages, who was suffering from acute respiratory distress. Following the soldie …

Holocaust survivor finds haven as Muslim in Israel

Leila Jabarin, formerly Helen Brashatsky, finally tells her eight children, 31 grandchildren about birth in Auschwitz: 'I hid my pain for 52 years'

The world will be shocked by the defeat of Tzipi Livni, its favorite Israeli politician

Throughout the previous decade as a leading proponent of Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan and then as Ehud Olmert’s solution-seeking deputy and foreign minister, Livni reached her political pinnacle on September 21, 2008, when President Peres asked her to form a  …

The UN's eroding moral compass

By Mike Fegelman... "As another telling example of how the UN has lost its moral compass, on March 9, just one day after International Women’s Day marked the achievement and continued challenges of women, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, passed  …

Israel/Palestine Peace Vine

Members: 14
Established: 10/2009
Group Type: Public
Join Group

A group dedicated to shifting the focus away from blaming the "other" side-- and towards articles and seeds related to promoting peace and understand …

Israel/Palestine Peace Vine's Feeds

Subscribe to Israel/Palestine Peace Vine's content using the feeds below. Use RSS for your newsreader and JSS to insert onto your own blog:
  • Articles
  • Seeds